Good morning,
Praise the Lord for this first Wednesday of 2011. We will come together for our mid-week gathering tonight at 6 PM, with a meal prepared by Rodney Haines. We will studying a six week video course titled, " Becoming a Contagious Christian". The contributors for this course are Mark Mittelburg, Lee Stroeble, and Bill Hyblels.
The Choir will practice at 7:30.
I read the following story some time ago. . . In 1932, Robert McGimsey attended a Christmas Eve service in New York City and then headed back to his one-room apartment. As he walked the final blocks, he passed by the open doors of private clubs where people were partying with all their might. They didn’t seem to have a clue that it was Christmas Eve, and if they did, they didn’t seem to care. As he stepped over people who had passed out on the sidewalk, he thought to himself, “What a strange way to celebrate the birth of the most perfect Person who ever lived on this earth. People are missing the whole significance of His life.”
When he finally arrived home, he scribbled some more thoughts on the back of an envelope. His words formed the basis of a song, “Sweet little Jesus Boy, they made you be born in a manger. Sweet little holy Child didn’t know who you was. Didn’t know you’d come to save us, Lord, to take our sins away. Our eyes was blind, we couldn’t see, we didn’t know who you was.”
There are 7 titles to our Lord Jesus in the opening chapter of JOHN. John spoke of Jesus as:
1. THE WORD - vs. 1 & 14
2. THE LIGHT - vs. 5 & 7
3. THE LAMB OF GOD - vs. 29 & 36
4. THE SON OF GOD - vs. 34 & 49
5. THE CHRIST (MESSIAH) - vs. 41
6. THE KING OF ISRAEL - vs. 49
7. THE SON OF MAN - vs. 51
"The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words." - (Atlanta Journal) It would appear that the number of words bears no direct correlation to the importance and substance of the contents.
By contrast, in the Greek, John 1:1 contains 17 words which, according to one commentary, are the “most compact and pulsating theological statement in all of Scripture.”
Praise the Lord for the Truth of the Gospel. "The Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us." He is Emmanuel, God with us. The God who is Immortal and Invisible became visible and lived on earth as the Word of God incarnate. He dwells with His own who have trusted in Him, who have believed in His Name, and to them He has given the authority to become the sons and the daughters of God. We belong to the New Family. May we walk in His light under His authority and with fearlessness.
In Him,
Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-08YZF87OBQ
Saturday evening worship service.
Location: First United Methodist Church. Endicott
53 McKinley Avenue , Endicott.
Sponsored by the Union Center United Methodist Church, 128, Maple Drive, Endicott
Saturday, January 8, 2011
6 PM Coffee Fellowship Gathering
6:30PM Worship Service.
Worship Leader: Rev. Earle Cowden
Worship Music: Aric Phinney and the band.
New Years Greetings by: Pastor Brown Naik
Message By Dave Hettinger
Saturday 15, 2011
6 PM Coffee and Gathering
6:30 PM Worship Service
Worship Music by a local worship Team, and Dave Berry
Speakers: Rev. Bill Turner,
Rev. Brown Naik,
and Dr. Elizabeth Droz, PhD, Dean of Students at Binghamton University
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